BIOGRAPHY, WIKIPEDIA, SONS AND HUSBAND: Fiona Phillips reveals she’s diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease at 62.
Journalist Fiona has also started on a treatment programme she hopes with slow the progression of the cruel disease, which claimed the lives of both her parents.
For months Fiona was insistent on keeping the news of her illness from their two sons Nat, 24, who’s in the army and Mackenzie, 21.
Fiona Phillips has not let her Alzheimer’s diagnosis, at the heartbreakingly young age of 62, stop her from living her life to the full.
She walks daily and regularly meets friends for coffee. Time with her family is also vital – dinner with her husband, This Morning boss, Martin Frizell, or quality time with her two sons. Fiona Phillips has not let her Alzheimer’s diagnosis, at the heartbreakingly young age of 62, stop her from living her life to the full.
She walks daily and regularly meets friends for coffee. Time with her family is also vital – dinner with her husband, This Morning boss, Martin Frizell, or quality time with her two sons.
“It’s something I might have thought I’d get at 80”, she added. “But I was still only 61 years old. I felt more angry than anything else because this disease has already impacted my life in so many ways.”
Fiona tragically lost both her mother and father to the cruel disease along with her grandparents and uncle who also received the diagnosis.
The 62-year-old was carrying the secret of her illness for 18 months but has chosen to share the news with readers of the Mirror, where she has been a columnist for almost 20 years.
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